FOUR OF THE BEST: Women's fours champions of Cooper's Beach.
FOUR OF THE BEST: Women's fours champions of Cooper's Beach.
The Cooper's Beach Bowling Club completed its domestic championship fours titles earlier this month.
The report from the event played over the weekend of November 8 and 9 noted the team of Jim Naylor, Trevor Smith, Clive Schaill and Peter Wilson won the men's event which was contested by fourteams playing a two life system of four games per day of 15 ends or 1 hour 45 minutes, with no time limit for the final/ possible final.
The Naylors took a life off Denis Hailey, Neill Marr, Pom Kaire and Stu Pederson 14-08; while Dennis Breckon, Bryon Corfield, Ray Thorburn and Brian Hall did the same to Ron Payne, Rod Felton, John McSorley and Steve Barber 20-11.
The Naylors then beat Breckon's bunch 19-3 while the Paynes ended the Haileys' day 17-8. The Breckons defeated the Paynes 22-6 while the Naylors enjoyed a bye to the possible final where they eventually retained their title against the Breckons, 20-10.
Emerging triumphant in the women's section were Dawn King with Ngaire Watts, Glennis Ansley and Margaret Wildbor, in a field of five teams playing under the same conditions as the men. The quartet eventually beat Bunty Barron's team of Glenis Love, Kay McClean and Jean Piesse in a see-sawing final on the second day, 13-12. The other teams in the event were Shirley Marr, Trish Breckon, Patsy Thornton and Barbara Scahill; and Janice Allan, Nancy Page, Pam Roughton and Pat Rayner.
Both men's and women's champions kept both lives intact on their way to the respective titles and now progress to represent the club at the Bowls Far North Centre champion of champions event later in the season.
